Green Solo cup. I fill you up.
Happy Superbowl Sunday, ya’ll.
Ok, ok. There was only lemonade in the cup. And we were celebrating a friend’s birthday with the game on in the far background. I’ve been inspired by red solo cups for years. This cheery green one just begged to be photographed. Photo Copyright 2012, Karen Fayeth. Taken with my iPhone4s using the Hipstamatic app.
I was so impressed by a Hipstaphoto I saw in December where a photographer had used an Olloclip to capture a snowflake, that I just had to go out and purchase one of my very own.
After the Christmas holidays, they were on major backorder, so I wasn’t expecting my new iPhoneography device until February.
I did a little hop click of my heels when it arrived this week.
Super!
Between moving and the deluge of new projects at work, I haven’t had a bunch of time to play with the glass lenses and ingenious clip for my iPhone.
Yesterday, I sat in the work cafeteria slumped in my chair trying to get in some nutrition, and my eyes landed on this tableau:
Well, the light was nice and the shakers were interesting. So I decided no time like the present.
I dug the Olloclip out of my pocket, slid it on the iPhone, and took some quick snaps.
These aren’t well composed and in some cases, focus is a little wonky.
And yet, I’m deeply impressed.
These three shots were all using the macro lens:
Red pepper flakes. They almost look like jerky. The light streaks are from the sun bouncing off the ridges in the shaker
Pepper that looks like grains of sand.
Take this photo with a grain of salt
So far, I’m digging the Olloclip. I still have to try out the fish eye (though I’m not really a fan of fish eye lenses) and the wide angle. Honestly, I bought the Olloclip for the macro lens, so I expect the other lenses won’t see as much use.
I think the quality of the Olloclip is a bit better than the Macro Cell Lens Band (reviewed here) mainly because it’s made of actual glass and not plastic, but I find the lens band more portable.
Either way, they make delicious looking macro photos. Time to explore!
Happy Friday ya’ll.
It should be noted that I paid for the Olloclip myself and that this review was not solicited, nor was I compensated. I’m just a giddy fangirl and proud of it.
All photos Copyright 2011, Karen Fayeth and subject to the Creative Commons license found on the far right column of this page.
Today’s Theme Thurday theme is: produce.
So let’s produce the produce! (<- see what I did there?)
Photos taken in my cafeteria at work with my iPhone4s and the Hipstamatic app……and in the middle of an extraordinarily busy day.
Theme Thurday waits for no BossMan, no matter how demanding.
With the insanity of a more-than-full-time job, and the crush of the holidays, I’m a little sad that I wasn’t able to make a batch of my Blue Ribbon biscochitos this year. (Long time reader Ephraim has agreed to eat extra of his wife’s batch of biscochitos in order to bring balance back to the universe)
I also didn’t get a chance to make sugar cookies.
I didn’t manage to get to that chocolate covered peanut butter ball recipe I wanted to try.
And toffee. This year I was going to make toffee.
I didn’t get any of that done.
Thankfully, one family tradition did manage to squeeze through my kitchen as we near the holiday.
When I was growing up, my mom used to make these fabulous cream cheese mints. I always considered them to be so elegant and classy. Posh, as the Brits would say.
I remember my mom wrapped up a beautiful box of mints and gave them to my kindergarten teacher (who I idolized). She sent my mom a gushing thank you note. For some reason that stuck with me.
Through the magic of the internet, I was able to find myself a set of candy molds that approximated my mom’s collection, and Thursday night I put all else aside and whipped up a batch.
Tasty treats. Family lore.
Happy Christmas Eve to us all!!
This tin was supposed to make its way to work to share. It didn’t make it to work. More for me!
So pretty!!
Photos Copyright 2011, Karen Fayeth, and subject to the Creative Commons on the right column of this page. Photos taken with an iPhone4s and the Hipstamatic app.
Another happy holiday re-blog. This one from December of last year.
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Since I’m still in that obnoxious happy Holiday mood, I’ve been listening to my own mix tape of fave Christmas tunes in my car to and from work.
I don’t play them much at home. Not sure The Good Man would go for piping all my insane Xmas cheer into the house.
Aaaaanyhow, this morning I was listening to the George Strait song, “Christmastime in Texas” and the line “it might look just like a summer day” which, of course, made me think of Christmas in New Mexico. I think there was snow on Christmas just once when I was growing up, and that was all melted off by noon.
Christmas in New Mexico was more like sixty-five degrees and shorts and a tshirt to play with my new toys outside.
I’ve always loved all the standard Christmas tunes, but hey, to a New Mexico kid, they don’t really apply.
So I decided to tinker with some of the classics to give them more of a New Mexico vibe.
Here just a few, feel free to add your own!
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“Up on a Housetop”
Up on a rooftop, stick stick stick, tar paper roof laid on too thick
“Walking in a Winter Wonderland”
Walking in a surprisingly summerlike wonderland
“Silent Night”
Silent night, holy HELL my neighbor’s yard decorations are bright
“White Christmas”
I’m dreaming of a red or green Christmas. Green please, with a fried egg on top. Pass the tamales. (whoops, lost the natural rhythm of the song there….thoughts of Christmas tamales will do that to me)
“Let it Snow”
Oh the weather outside is windy, and the weeds are very tumbly, and since we’ve no place to go, let it blow, let it blow, let it blow….my car off the highway.
“The Christmas Song”
Calf’s nuts roasting on an open fire, branding iron nipping at your flanks
(yeah, ok, so winter isn’t exactly branding season, but go with me here)
“Jingle Bells”
Paper bags, paper bags, burning in my yard.
“Frosty the Snowman”
Nobby the mud tires, on a very four wheel truck, with a four on the floor and a headache rack, and two headlights made out of halogen
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Ah, mud tires and a headache rack. Now that’s what Christmas means to me.
Photo from New Mexico Magazine.